LINGUIST List 12.774

Tue Mar 20 2001

Calls: Information Agents, Applied Ling/Germany

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. CIMCA, Special Session on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS
2. Susanne Niemeier, Association of Applied Linguistics, Germany (GAL)

 CALL FOR PAPERS
 ===============

 Special Session on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS
 at
 International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
 and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001
 9-11 July 2001
 Las Vegas, USA
 http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/IAWTIC2001/index.htm

 In Conjunction with
 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,
 Control and Automation - CIMCA'2001
 http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/CIMCA2001/index.htm




Cooperative information agent technology is a new idea that
has emerged as a response to the challenges of intelligent web applications.

Artificial intelligence, databases, distributed systems, data mining and 
information retrieval
and many other areas of research are required for the development of 
cooperative information
agents.

This special session is devoted to the new and innovative
techniques used for building intelligent agents and their
applications. Topics of this special session include but
not limited to:

Applications of Intelligent Agents
Architectures of intelligent agents
Agents for electronic commerce applications
Collaborating agents
Multiagent system
Uncertain reasoning and intelligent agents
Mobile agents
Intelligent agents applications in information retrieval and data mining 
from the Internet and Web
Learning techniques for agents


IMPORTANT DATES
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16 April 2001 Deadline for submission of draft papers
10 May 2001 Notification of acceptance
28 May 2001 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
9-11 July 2001 Conference sessions


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
====================
Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness,
and clarity of presentation. Extended abstract (4 pages) should be submitted
to the following e-mail address: cimcaise.canberra.edu.au


PROCEEDINGS
===========
The proceedings including all accepted papers will be published
by as edited books by international publishers in USA.

Further Information
For further information either contact cimcaise.canberra.edu.au or
see the conference homepage at: 
http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/IAWTIC2001/index.htm


International Liaison:

Canada and USA Liaison:
J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University,
Canada

West Asia and Australia Liaison:
R. Jentzsch, University of Canberra, Australia


Europe Liaison :
Z. Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria

Local Arrangements and
Public Relation:
S. Jones, ComPro, USA
P. Kazumi, VL-Pro, The Netherlands

Publicity:
P. Kazumi, VL-Pro, The Netherlands
S. Jones, ComPro, USA
J. Richards, C-Tech, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 31st annual conference of the GAL (Association of Applied Linguistics,
Germany) will take place in Passau (Germany) from September 27-29, 2001.
Within this conference, there will be a theme session on Language Teaching
Methodology and we would like to invite you to submit an abstract before
April 14, 2001. The conference language is German, but you are welcome to
present in English, provided you are able to lead the discussion in German.
Please send your abstract as an email attachment to both Michael
Becker-Mrotzek Becker.Mrotzekuni-koeln.de) and to Susanne Niemeier
(sniemeieruni-bremen.de). For further details, visit the conference
homepage at http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/engl_sprache/gal


Sektion 13: Sprachdidaktik

Schwerpunkt der diesj�hrigen Sektionsarbeit sollen - in einem sehr weiten
Verst�ndnis - die empirischen Grundlagen sprachlicher Lehr-Lern-Prozesse
sein. Wir m�chte der Frage nachgehen, was wir dar�ber wissen, wie Menschen
Sprachen - ihre Muttersprache und Fremdsprachen - lernen, und zwar jenseits
des prim�ren Spracherwerbs. Welche empirischen Kenntnisse haben wir? Welche
Desiderata gibt es? Welchen Stellenwert haben empirische Untersuchungen in
didaktischen Kontexten? Welche Art von Empirie und Methodologie ben�tigen
wir? Konzepte wie der autonome Lerner, die auf bestimmten, z.T.
konstruktivistischen Theorien beruhen, k�nnen ebenso thematisiert werden
wie eher instruktionsorientierte Ans�tze.
Wir k�nnen uns Arbeiten vorstellen aus dem Bereich des
Schriftspracherwerbs, der Schreibentwicklung, des
Fremd(fach)sprachenunterrichts, der Kognitionsforschung, der angewandten
kognitiven Linguistik, der Unterrichtsforschung, der Literaturdidaktik, des
Bereichs Deutsch als Fremd-/Zweitsprache, des bilingualen
Sachfachunterrichts oder der Fort- und Weiterbildung. Denkbar ist auch die
gemeinsame Diskussion von empirischen Daten, etwa in Form von Transkripten,
authentischen Texten oder experimentellen Befunden. 

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Dr. Susanne Niemeier	
University of Bremen, FB 10
PO Box 33 04 40
D - 28334 Bremen
Tel.: *49-421-2187792
Fax: *49-421-2184283
sniemeieruni-bremen.de

private: *49-4298-698268
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